Improvement in platforms for stoves



W. WESTLAKE.

' Platforms for Stoves.

No. 140,393,. Pat entedlulyl, l873.

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WILLIAM WESTLAKE, OFOHIGAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLATFORMS FOR STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,393, dated July 1, 187 3 application filed August 16, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WESTLAKE,

'of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Platforms for Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section.

My present invention is an improvement on the platforms for stoves for which Letters Patent have been heretofore granted me, and its object is to protect the metal which covers the interior portion of the platform from being bruised at the point where it passes over the interior over which it is to be spun, and

is spun down over the edge of the interior A, the lower edge It passing over the lower edge of A. The other piece, b, is cut of such size that when spun over the interior the part d will lap over the upper part of a. c is a wire,

or other suitable hard substance, of proper form, located at the upper edge of A; and b is spun-over c, as seen in Fig. 1, forming a bead, f, around the upper edge of the completed platform, which will protect it from injury.

I make these platforms round, though they might be made somewhat oval.

In making these platforms I find it most convenient to spin the part a from an entire sheet, not turning h over, and then cut out from the sheet the portion not wanted for a and from the part left a second rim, a, can be spun of smaller size. Having placed the interior A in its rim a, his to be spun over, and the part I) with the wire 0 then brought to place.

If necessary, d might be secured to a by solder at afew points, or by other well-known device.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The platform for stoves herein described, consisting of the interior A, covered by the two pieces of metal a b, and having its upper edge protected from injury, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' WILLIAM WESTLAKE.

Witnesses:

E. A. WEST, WM. R. PLUM. 

